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PRONUNCIATION OF EYE RHYME

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EYE RHYME

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Eye rhyme is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES EYE RHYME MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Eye rhyme

An eye rhyme, also called a visual rhyme or a sight rhyme, is a rhyme in which two words are spelled similarly but pronounced differently and have come into general use through "poetic license" also known as artistic license. An example is the pair slaughter and laughter; although they look similar, and should rhyme based on the visual aspect, when they are spoken there is no rhyming quality. Many older English poems, particularly those written in Middle English or written in the Renaissance, contain rhymes that were originally true or full rhymes, but as read by modern readers, they are now eye rhymes because of shifts in pronunciation, especially the Great Vowel Shift. They are called historic rhymes.

Definition of eye rhyme in the English dictionary

The definition of eye rhyme in the dictionary is a rhyme involving words that are similar in spelling but not in sound, such as stone and none.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EYE RHYME

eye clinic
eye colour
eye contact
eye cream
eye doctor
eye dog
eye drops
eye examination
eye job
eye level
eye make-up
eye make-up remover
eye of day
eye patch
eye shadow
eye socket
eye specialist
eye splice
eye strain
eye test

WORDS THAT END LIKE EYE RHYME

basil-thyme
berhyme
chyme
coenenchyme
cyclothyme
feminine rhyme
full rhyme
half-rhyme
internal rhyme
masculine rhyme
mesenchyme
monorhyme
near rhyme
nursery rhyme
pararhyme
perfect rhyme
rhyme
rich rhyme
slant rhyme
thyme

Synonyms and antonyms of eye rhyme in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «eye rhyme» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EYE RHYME

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The translations of eye rhyme from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «eye rhyme» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

眼韵
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

rima ojo
570 millions of speakers

English

eye rhyme
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

आँख कविता
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

قافية العين
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

глаз рифмы
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

rima olho
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

চোখের ছড়া
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

rime oeil
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sajak mata
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Augen Reim
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

視覚韻
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

눈 운율
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sajak mata
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

vần mắt
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கண் ரைம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

डोळ्यांच्या कविता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Göz kafası
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

rima occhio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

oko wierszyk
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

очей рими
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

rima ochi
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ομοιοκαταληξία μάτι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

oog rym
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

öga rim
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

øye rim
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EYE RHYME»

The term «eye rhyme» is used very little and occupies the 186.583 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «EYE RHYME» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about eye rhyme

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EYE RHYME»

Discover the use of eye rhyme in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to eye rhyme and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Linguistics and the Language of Translation
... vanishings, Blank misgivings of a creature While true rhyme is a matter of pronunciation alone, written text can carry what is known as 'eye-rhyme', which occurs when identical letters represent different sounds. Leech (1969: 92-3) illustrates ...
Kirsten Malmkjær, 2005
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The Cambridge Companion to William Blake
... an eye-rhyme with "eye" itself. The signifier of poetic measure, "symmetry," plays no "same measure" but imposes metrical disproportion. The first line ( following the stanza pattern) scans, almost mechanically What immortal hand or eye But ...
Morris Eaves, 2003
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English Choral Practice, 1400-1650
546 ff. i It is not at all easy to pinpoint the beginnings of eye-rhyme (see A. C. Gimson, An Introduction to the Pronunciation of English (London 1962; 4/1989), p . 79). C. L. Wrenn, Word and Symbol - Studies in English Language (London 1967), ...
John Morehen, 2003
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An Introduction to Poetry in English
Eye-rhyme connects two words with different sounds but a similar group of letters. The rhyme is visua1. In John Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (1820), among regular rhymes, some eye-rhymes are interspersed: Heard melodies are sweet, but ...
Éric Doumerc, Wendy Harding, 2007
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Poetry: The Basics
Moreover we might see in rafter an eye-rhyme - that is a combination of letters that look as though they might rhyme although they do not - with the poem's first word safe. There are other delicate and eerie effects which help create the ...
Jeffrey Wainwright, 2004
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The Stuff of Literature: Physical Aspects of Texts and Their ...
Note that not all the rhyme words are misspelled in order to produce an eye rhyme, and it is sometimes interesting to consider how far this regularity is systematic. Ogden Nash's rhymes derive of course from Ogden Nash's own pronunciation.
Edward A. Levenston, 1992
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F E G: Ridiculous (Stupid) Poems for Intelligent Children
Eye Rhyme is the exact opposite. Here, everything looks the same but sounds different. So it rhymes, not to the ear but to the eye — hence eye rhyme. It also makes absolutely no sense to read it aloud — since you only get it by looking at it .
Robin Hirsch, 2008
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Poetry Kaleidoscope:
Back | Home | Up | Next Half rhyme, sometimes known as slant, sprung or near rhyme, and less commonly eye rhyme (a term covering a broader phenomenon), is consonance on the final consonants of the words involved. It is widely used in ...
Nicolae Sfetcu, 2014
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How to Prepare for SAT II.: Literature
When dealing with possible historical rhyme, eye rhyme, or imperfect rhyme, you need to look first at the CONTEXT (the established rhyme scheme of the poem — a process called correspondence) and then at the MEANINGS of the line in ...
Christina Myers-Shaffer, 2000
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The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics: Fourth Edition
J. Ratych, R. Ley, R. C. Conard (); R. Rumold, The Janus Face of the German Avant-Garde (); A Companion to the Literature of German Expressionism, ed. N. H. Donahue (). N. H. Donahue EYE RHYME (sight rhyme, visual ...
Stephen Cushman, Clare Cavanagh, Jahan Ramazani, 2012

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EYE RHYME»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term eye rhyme is used in the context of the following news items.
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Poetry Fills Up My Senses
This subtle eye rhyme also gives us a sense of visual pleasure. For another, with their “infant eyes” or “realist eyes”(Rock and Hawk, Robinson Jeffers, Line 17) ... «Peking University News, Apr 15»
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Belfie, drelfie, helfie, and more variations on selfie
Selfeye is an eye rhyme (fittingly) for selfie, that is a rhyme by sightrather sound, and coined by cosmetics line Max Factor. shelfie. "Given that ... «The Week Magazine, May 14»
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One Might Say 'Nevada' in Las Vegas
It looks like it might, though, making it an EYE RHYME. The “Short-billed rail” is a CRAKE. Both it and ORYX have appeared before, but never in ... «New York Times, Jun 10»

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